Malaysiakini - Dr M: No need to study engineering if you want to sell nasi lemak (extracts):
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Dr Mahathir Mohamad today continued his tirade on professionals being "forced" to take up odd jobs such as selling nasi lemak.
The former premier said that if someone really wanted to sell nasi lemak, there was no need to get high qualifications in fields such as engineering.
"Now we see people like engineers not being able to get jobs who are forced to sell nasi lemak.
"If we are spending hundreds of thousands of ringgit to train someone who ends up selling nasi lemak, that is a waste.
"If they really want to sell nasi lemak, then there's no need to make them an engineer," he said in his weekly “Policy Talk”, which was streamed on Facebook live today.
The former premier said that if someone really wanted to sell nasi lemak, there was no need to get high qualifications in fields such as engineering.
"Now we see people like engineers not being able to get jobs who are forced to sell nasi lemak.
"If we are spending hundreds of thousands of ringgit to train someone who ends up selling nasi lemak, that is a waste.
"If they really want to sell nasi lemak, then there's no need to make them an engineer," he said in his weekly “Policy Talk”, which was streamed on Facebook live today.
Can we then say that if someone really wanted to be a politician, there was no need for him or her to get high qualifications in fields such as medicine.
That person has wasted his-her parents' and his-her nation's resources in studying for years at a university, and subsequently deprived Malaysians of the availability of a doctor (or two, wakakaka).
What a bloody selfish waste and what a bloody selfish person.
But it's OK for Anwar Ibrahim to be in politics. After all he majored in Malay Studies, right up the alley of his chosen profession, wakakaka.
